RiskSense - Company of the Year

Company: RiskSense, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, USACompany Description: RiskSense, Inc., is the pioneer and market leader in pro-active cyber risk management. The company enables enterprises and governments to unify and contextualize internal security intelligence and external threat data across the entire computing stack, then correlate the findings with business criticality to identify imminent cyber risks and prioritize remediation actions.Nomination Category: Company / Organization CategoriesNomination Sub Category: Company of the Year - Computer Software - Small

Nomination Title: RiskSense

Tell the story about what this nominated organization has achieved since 1 January 2016 (up to 650 words). Focus on specific accomplishments, and relate these accomplishments to past performance or industry norms.

RiskSense pioneered the category of cyber security risk management in response to the increasing challenges of extracting actionable intelligence from the massive volume of data generated by the patchwork of cyber security products, including vulnerability scanners, threat intelligence feeds, and other complex security systems. Enterprises are seeking solutions to unify and contextualize the feeds from these disconnected, siloed tools and then prioritize and remediate those cyber risks that pose the biggest business impact. Rather than adding more tools, organizations are recognizing the need to implement a new, more efficient enterprise security model.

To address these challenges, RiskSense provides a new, pro-active approach to cyber security risk management that enables enterprises and government to reveal cyber risk, quickly orchestrate remediation, and monitor the results. This is done by unifying and contextualizing internal security intelligence, external threat data, and business criticality across a growing attack surface.

Manual approaches can take months, during which time attackers can exploit vulnerabilities, causing damaging cyber breaches and loss of valuable data. RiskSense automates these processes, empowering organizations to reveal imminent cyber risks, increase the productivity of their limited cyber security staff, and minimize attack surface exposure.

RiskSense offers a unique value proposition as it serves both as a force-multiplier for increasingly scarce cyber security operations talent, as well as providing cyber risk management visibility and best practices for the C-Suite. By leveraging RiskSense’s cyber security risk management solution, organizations can significantly reduce risk, reduce costs, improve response readiness, and increase risk-posture visibility.

The RiskSense Platform uses patented technology and leverages existing technology investments to contextualize internal security intelligence (e.g., from SIEM systems, vulnerability scanners, configuration management systems), external threat data feeds (e.g., exploits, malware, threat actors, reputational intelligence), and business criticality to identify imminent cyber risks and prioritize remediation actions for physical and virtual assets within an organization’s infrastructure. In turn, organizations are offered a risk-based prioritization of the gaps that need to be mitigated first based on their business impact.

RiskSense’s innovation in the market has been validated and affirmed by the company’s winning Fortune 100 customers in large-scale deals against many public and private competitors. For example, RiskSense was selected over its competition by the third largest telecommunications company in the United States to transform their cyber risk management practices and build the foundation for delivering advanced managed security services to their client base. Proof of concepts showed RiskSense’s modern technology was 20 to 30 times better in scalability and performance, and with a return of investment rate deemed best-in-industry. The company’s success is reflected in 100 percent year-over-year growth and rapid expansion of its employee base. For instance, RiskSense opened a new hub in Silicon Valley, which complements its 18,000 square foot office in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Based on the company’s innovation in the cyber risk management space, Gartner named RiskSense as one of the leading vendors in their report on Security Operations, Analysis, and Reporting. Furthermore, the company and its cyber risk management platform have received more than three dozen industry accolades over the last 12 months, including 2017 American Business Gold Awards Winner for Tech Software Startup of the Year, 2017 American Business Silver Awards Winner for Best Software Company of the Year, 2017 GOVIES Gold Award Winner for Best Security and Risk Intelligence Solution, 2017 Leader in Vulnerability Management by Cyber Defense Magazine, Cyber Defense Magazine’s Editor’s Choice Award for Best Risk Management Solution, 2017 Cybersecurity Excellence Awards Winner for Best Vulnerability Management Solution, 2016 Deloitte Technology Fast 500 Honoree (#178th in Software / #319th Overall), and 2016 SINET 16 Innovators Awards.

In bullet-list form, briefly summarize up to ten (10) of the chief accomplishments of this organization since the beginning of 2016 (up to 150 words).

-100 percent year-over-year growth.
-Geographic expansion by opening a new office in Silicon Valley.
-Exception vertical scale, serving organizations across the government; banking, financial services, and insurance; healthcare; telecommunications; retail; higher education; new media; and utilities markets.
-RiskSense has invested heavily in research, leading to a variety of patents that are part of the DNA of the RiskSense Platform.
-To stay ahead of cyber adversaries, RiskSense employs a deep bench of security researchers and collaborates via its Fellowship Program with leading IT and cyber security programs at New Mexico Tech, UC Riverside, and Carnegie Mellon University, among others.
-RiskSense’s founder and chief executive officer has been published in over 120 peer-reviewed publications in the areas of information assurance, malware analytics, digital forensics, data mining, and bioinformatics.
-Gartner named RiskSense as one of the leading vendors in Security Operations, Analysis, and Reporting.

Of the following measures of success, which ONE do you want the judges to most appreciate about your organization's story of achievement since the beginning of 2016?